alias-tips VS zsh-autosuggestions

# Set ZSH_CUSTOM if it's not already (used by our PLUGINS_PATH below) if [ -z $ZSH_CUSTOM ]; then ZSH_CUSTOM="$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom" fi # Install additional plugins to this path PLUGINS_PATH="${ZSH_CUSTOM}/plugins" # Define function for installing plugins for use below function install-plugin() { plugin_repo=$1 plugin_name=$2 echo "Downloading Plugin: $plugin_name" echo "Using: $plugin_repo" echo "To: $PLUGINS_PATH/$plugin_name" echo "git clone $plugin_repo $PLUGINS_PATH/$plugin_name" git clone $plugin_repo $PLUGINS_PATH/$plugin_name plugin_list="${plugin_list}$plugin_name " } echo "Installing Plugins..." install-plugin https://github.com/djui/alias-tips alias-tips install-plugin https://github.com/wting/autojump autojump install-plugin https://github.com/TamCore/autoupdate-oh-my-zsh-plugins autoupdate install-plugin https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions autosuggestions echo "Plugins Installed. Add them by copying th following into your ~/.zshrc plugins=( $plugin_list ) " # For auto jump we must install it using it's own script cd "$PLUGINS_PATH/autojump" ./install.py

There’s a zsh plugin for that: https://github.com/djui/alias-tips

https://github.com/djui/alias-tips this is different but I found it quite useful, it will give you shorter version of commands if you have aliases matched the current commands

The best plugin that I've seen recently is alias-tips, which if you run the command and you've got an alias configured for that, it pops up and says, "Hey, don't forget you can type this." So if I'm using Kubernetes and I write Kubectl, apply -f and then the manifest path, it'll say, "Hey, don't forget you can just run K-A-F, and then the path." So that's probably the best plugin that I've seen recently.

alias-tips 🥇 - An oh-my-zsh plugin to help remembering those aliases you defined once.

👉 Install alias-tips

brew install fzf # for fuzzy find files, commands, etc brew install starship $(brew --prefix)/opt/fzf/install git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting # syntax highlight for zsh git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions # smart autosuggestions for zsh echo 'eval "$(starship init zsh)"' >> ~/.zshrc

The big thing for me was the intuitive auto-completion which I hadn't seen anywhere else at the time, but this is now also available in zsh via this plugin:

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

The zsh-autosuggestions plugin suggests commands that you've previously used in your command history. To accept a suggestion, simply press the right arrow key.

$ git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting $ git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

Am i the only one who feels fish is not worth it despite of hype? Don't get me wrong. I think that fish is really good shell.

BUT...

After adding the following plugins to zsh(before you chime in, it's just adding these lines,not anything configuring much. also it auto bootstraps on new install), I found out that fish is no where near configured zsh.

1) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit (plugin manager)

2) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin...

3) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo...

4) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

5) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions

6) https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

7) any good shell prompt generator like https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

For example, I use fzf integration for tab completion. Fish's fzf integration is nowhere as good as that of zsh's. Also, posix compat and almost bash compat of zsh is plus.

I acknowledge that zsh isn't perfect shell either and I have tried and failed few times in past to switch to fish. If you provide me compelling reason/s to switch to fish, I am all ears.

I'm currently using vterm + zsh + zsh-autosuggestions for most of my terminal stuff.

Two by far the most popular plugins are zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions. They are of high quality and quite useful.

echo "Installing zsh-autosuggestions" git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions echo "Installing zsh-syntax-highlighting" git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting echo "Installing asdf" git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git ~/.asdf

I prefer zsh autosuggestions over the fuck. https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

Then install this plugin: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions/blob/master/INSTALL.md